22 Apr 2021|Gurgaon (Manesar) | online
Amity School of Earth and Environmental Science organized virtual webinar on International Earth Day
Amity School of Earth and Environmental Science , Amity University Haryana organized virtual webinar on the occasion of International Earth Day on 22nd April 2021. The theme of Earth Day 2021 is "Restore Our Earth" with a focus on natural processes, emerging green technologies and innovative thinking that can restore the world's ecosystems.
The focused of the event was on challenges what human being is facing i.e. Climate Change, Global warming, Air and Water Pollution, Biodiversity loss and many more. The topic of Event was “Saving and Serving Mother Earth- Together, We Can Restore Our Earth”. The webinar was attended by 290+ researchers, scientists, Faculties and students.
Mr. Alok K. Shrivastava (IAS (Retd), Former Chief Secretary Sikkim Govt. spoke on Saving and Serving Mother Earth Together, We Can Restore Our Earth”. He encouraged the audience with very informative session which emphasized Global Warming and Climate Change are major environmental challenges together with the emergence of abiotic and biotic including Coronavirus entrance in the environment. Technology is available not only to sequester Green House Gases to solve the Climate problem but also for the production of biofuel, biochemicals, biomaterials by biovalorization, biorefinery and circular economy, zero waste etc.
Next speaker, Prof. I.S Thakur, highlighted the importance of earth day celebration (why earth day celebrated), He also discussed some of the important issues like Water stresses, solid waste management, Waste water treatment scenario in India, Emission of greenhouse gases of waste water treatment, climate change and food security, global warming impacts on jobs, Chemical looping mechanism for carbon dioxide sequestration etc. Professor Thakur informed that the recent technology moved to economic viability and removal of one ton of CO2 reduced from US$ 600 to US$ 94 to US$ 232 (Joule, Cell Press, 2, 1573-1594, 2018). He cited the famous work of Fischer and Tropsch for chemical looping mechanisms of catalytic hydrogenation into value added products by carbon fixation.